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13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A Short History of A Small
Place by T.R. Pearson

A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahamme-Smith

Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1) by Lian
Hern

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

Alone Together by Sherry Turkle

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

American Rust by Philipp Meyer

An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Angels Crest by Leslie Schwartz

Another Country by James Baldwin

Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead

Area 51 by Robert Doherty

ASH: A Secret History by Mary Gentle

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Bleed by Ed Kurtz

Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Born to Run by Christopher MacDougall

Brainiac by Ken Jennings

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Callisto by Torsten Krol

Candide by Voltaire

Catcher in the Rye

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce

Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel by Susan Vreeland

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

Controlled Burn by Scott Wolven

Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Disgrace by J.M. Coetze

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dragon Precinct by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

Driving with Plato by Robert Rowland Smith

Dune by Frank Herbert

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the
American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

Glass Bead Game by Hesse

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Horns by Joe Hill

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish

How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland

Howling's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

I Am Messenger by Markus Zusak

I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens by Peter Hartshorn

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I, Robot Series by Assimov

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by
Nathaniel Philbrick

Independent People by Halldór Laxness

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore

Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright

It by Stephen King

It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott

Journey By Moonlight by Antal Szerb

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec

Like Being Killed by Ellen Miller

Lincoln's Melancholy by Johsua Wolf Shneck

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada

Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Fridges by Tim Scott

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Magician by Robert E. Feist

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simmonson

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland

Modern China-The Fall and Rise of a Great Power-From 1850 to Present
by Jonathan Fenby

Moment in the Sun by John Sayles

Monstrous Regimen by Terry Pratchett

Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

Nemesis by Jo Nesbo

Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner

Noli Mi Tangere by Jose Rizal (Leon Ma. Guerrero translation)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski

Open City by Teju Cole

Oracle Night by Paul Oster

Orientalism by Edward Said

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Panopticon by Jeremy Bantham

Paper Towns by John Green

Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey

Passages by Connie Wills

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Pride & Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Room by Emma Donoghue

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
by Karl Jacoby

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Solar by Ian McEwan

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Spoon Fed by Kim Severson

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

Sula by Toni Morrison

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

Swamplandia by Karen Russell

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty

The Android's Dream by John Scalzi

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Big Shift by Marc Freedman

The Birth of Pleasure by Carol Gilligan

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael
Pollan

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

The City and the City by China Mieville

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser

The Forty Rules of Love by Elik Shafak

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Free World by David Bezmozgis

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

The Glamour by Christopher Priest

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlonidow

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Keep by Jennifer Egan

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

The Mosntrumologist by Rick Yancey

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The New Cool by Neal Bascomb

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

The Passage by Justin Cronin

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephanie Chbosky

The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution by Amir
Taheri

The Point of Origin by Duke and Nancy Kell

The Possessed by Elif Batuman

The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg

The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois

The Stand by Stephen King

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The Street by Ann Petry

The Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston

To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust

Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein

True Deceiver by Tove Jansson

Twentysomething: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster by Iain
Hollingshead

Unexpectedly, Milo by Matthew Dicks

Voices by Arnaldur Indridason

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Wastelands by John Joseph Adams

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

When the World Was Young by Tony Romano

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by
P W Singer

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Writing used to be a solitary profession. How did it become so interminably social?

Whether we’re behind the podium or awaiting our turn, numbing our bottoms on the chill of metal foldout chairs or trying to work some life into our terror-stricken tongues, we introverts feel the pain of the public performance. This is because there are requirements to being a writer. Other than being a writer, I mean. Firstly, there’s the need to become part of the writing “community”, which compels every writer who craves self respect and success to attend community events, help to organize them, buzz over them, and—despite blitzed nerves and staggering bowels—present and perform at them. We get through it. We bully ourselves into it. We dose ourselves with beta blockers. We drink. We become our own worst enemies for a night of validation and participation.

Even when a dentist kills an adored lion, and everyone is furious, there’s loftier righteousness to be had.

Now is the point in the story of Cecil the lion—amid non-stop news coverage and passionate social-media advocacy—when people get tired of hearing about Cecil the lion. Even if they hesitate to say it.

But Cecil fatigue is only going to get worse. On Friday morning, Zimbabwe’s environment minister, Oppah Muchinguri, called for the extradition of the man who killed him, the Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer. Muchinguri would like Palmer to be “held accountable for his illegal action”—paying a reported $50,000 to kill Cecil with an arrow after luring him away from protected land. And she’s far from alone in demanding accountability. This week, the Internet has served as a bastion of judgment and vigilante justice—just like usual, except that this was a perfect storm directed at a single person. It might be called an outrage singularity.

Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject.

MANCHESTER, Mich.—Had Daniella Kippnick followed in the footsteps of the hundreds of millions of students who have earned university degrees in the past millennium, she might be slumping in a lecture hall somewhere while a professor droned. But Kippnick has no course lectures. She has no courses to attend at all. No classroom, no college quad, no grades. Her university has no deadlines or tenure-track professors.

Instead, Kippnick makes her way through different subject matters on the way to a bachelor’s in accounting. When she feels she’s mastered a certain subject, she takes a test at home, where a proctor watches her from afar by monitoring her computer and watching her over a video feed. If she proves she’s competent—by getting the equivalent of a B—she passes and moves on to the next subject.

The Wall Street Journal’s eyebrow-raising story of how the presidential candidate and her husband accepted cash from UBS without any regard for the appearance of impropriety that it created.

The Swiss bank UBS is one of the biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. TheWall Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the recent past.

The piece begins by detailing how Clinton helped the global bank.

“A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts,” the newspaper reports. “If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.”

There’s no way this man could be president, right? Just look at him: rumpled and scowling, bald pate topped by an entropic nimbus of white hair. Just listen to him: ranting, in his gravelly Brooklyn accent, about socialism. Socialism!

And yet here we are: In the biggest surprise of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, this thoroughly implausible man, Bernie Sanders, is a sensation.

He is drawing enormous crowds—11,000 in Phoenix, 8,000 in Dallas, 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa—the largest turnout of any candidate from any party in the first-to-vote primary state. He has raised $15 million in mostly small donations, to Hillary Clinton’s $45 million—and unlike her, he did it without holding a single fundraiser. Shocking the political establishment, it is Sanders—not Martin O’Malley, the fresh-faced former two-term governor of Maryland; not Joe Biden, the sitting vice president—to whom discontented Democratic voters looking for an alternative to Clinton have turned.

During the multi-country press tour for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, not even Jon Stewart has dared ask Tom Cruise about Scientology.

During the media blitz for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation over the past two weeks, Tom Cruise has seemingly been everywhere. In London, he participated in a live interview at the British Film Institute with the presenter Alex Zane, the movie’s director, Christopher McQuarrie, and a handful of his fellow cast members. In New York, he faced off with Jimmy Fallon in a lip-sync battle on The Tonight Show and attended the Monday night premiere in Times Square. And, on Tuesday afternoon, the actor recorded an appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, where he discussed his exercise regimen, the importance of a healthy diet, and how he still has all his own hair at 53.

Stewart, who during his career has won two Peabody Awards for public service and the Orwell Award for “distinguished contribution to honesty and clarity in public language,” represented the most challenging interviewer Cruise has faced on the tour, during a challenging year for the actor. In April, HBO broadcast Alex Gibney’s documentary Going Clear, a film based on the book of the same title by Lawrence Wright exploring the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a high-profile member. The movie alleges, among other things, that the actor personally profited from slave labor (church members who were paid 40 cents an hour to outfit the star’s airplane hangar and motorcycle), and that his former girlfriend, the actress Nazanin Boniadi, was punished by the Church by being forced to do menial work after telling a friend about her relationship troubles with Cruise. For Cruise “not to address the allegations of abuse,” Gibney said in January, “seems to me palpably irresponsible.” But in The Daily Show interview, as with all of Cruise’s other appearances, Scientology wasn’t mentioned.

An attack on an American-funded military group epitomizes the Obama Administration’s logistical and strategic failures in the war-torn country.

Last week, the U.S. finally received some good news in Syria:.After months of prevarication, Turkey announced that the American military could launch airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Syria from its base in Incirlik. The development signaled that Turkey, a regional power, had at last agreed to join the fight against ISIS.

The announcement provided a dose of optimism in a conflict that has, in the last four years, killed over 200,000 and displaced millions more. Days later, however, the positive momentum screeched to a halt. Earlier this week, fighters from the al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group aligned with al-Qaeda, reportedly captured the commander of Division 30, a Syrian militia that receives U.S. funding and logistical support, in the countryside north of Aleppo. On Friday, the offensive escalated: Al-Nusra fighters attacked Division 30 headquarters, killing five and capturing others. According to Agence France Presse, the purpose of the attack was to obtain sophisticated weapons provided by the Americans.

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

What is the Islamic State?

Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.

Some say the so-called sharing economy has gotten away from its central premise—sharing.

This past March, in an up-and-coming neighborhood of Portland, Maine, a group of residents rented a warehouse and opened a tool-lending library. The idea was to give locals access to everyday but expensive garage, kitchen, and landscaping tools—such as chainsaws, lawnmowers, wheelbarrows, a giant cider press, and soap molds—to save unnecessary expense as well as clutter in closets and tool sheds.

The residents had been inspired by similar tool-lending libraries across the country—in Columbus, Ohio; in Seattle, Washington; in Portland, Oregon. The ethos made sense to the Mainers. “We all have day jobs working to make a more sustainable world,” says Hazel Onsrud, one of the Maine Tool Library’s founders, who works in renewable energy. “I do not want to buy all of that stuff.”

A controversial treatment shows promise, especially for victims of trauma.

It’s straight out of a cartoon about hypnosis: A black-cloaked charlatan swings a pendulum in front of a patient, who dutifully watches and ping-pongs his eyes in turn. (This might be chased with the intonation, “You are getting sleeeeeepy...”)

Unlike most stereotypical images of mind alteration—“Psychiatric help, 5 cents” anyone?—this one is real. An obscure type of therapy known as EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is gaining ground as a potential treatment for people who have experienced severe forms of trauma.

Here’s the idea: The person is told to focus on the troubling image or negative thought while simultaneously moving his or her eyes back and forth. To prompt this, the therapist might move his fingers from side to side, or he might use a tapping or waving of a wand. The patient is told to let her mind go blank and notice whatever sensations might come to mind. These steps are repeated throughout the session.